Royal favourites

Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent

Byzantine emperor from 867 to 886

Consort of Ahmed, Valide Sultan and regent of Murad IV and Ibrahim I, grandmother and regent of Mehmed IV

29º Ottoman Grand Vizier (1493-1536)

Swedish statesman (1583-1654)

Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to 1583

Antinous, also called Antinoös, (; ; – ) was a Greek youth from Bithynia, a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god () and sometimes merely as a hero ().

Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 to 1603

Lucius Aelius Sejanus ( – 18 October AD 31), commonly known as Sejanus (), was a Roman soldier and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Of the Equites class by birth, Sejanus rose to power as prefect of the Praetorian Guard, the imperial bodyguard, of which he was commander from AD 14 until his execution for treason in AD 31.

Haseki Sultan of Mehmed IV, mother and Valide Sultan of Mustafa II and Ahmed III.

thumb|Equestrian portrait of Duke de Olivares|Equestrian portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares by [[Diego Velázquez ()]]

Eight Haseki and legal wife of Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire

Greek adventurer (1647-1688)

Haseki Sultan of Sultan Murad IV of the Ottoman Empire

German statesman and art collector at the court of Saxony (1700-1763)

Haseki Sultan of Ahmed II

Freedman and favourite of emperor Commodus (died 190)

seventh Haseki of Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I

Chinese eunuch (1902 - 1996)

senior office holder in the Mongol Empire

German general (1698-1774)

Royal favourite (1850–1923)

French dwarf

nanny of the Tianqi Emperor

thumb| Portrait of the Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach with her "Kammermohr" [[Ignatius Fortuna, by Johann Jakob Schmitz, Cologne 1772]] thumb|Sophie Amalie of Lüneburg, queen of Denmark, with her hand upon her Kammermohr, 17th-century. Kammermohr (or Hofmohr; pl. Kammermohren, lit. "chamber-black") was a German-language term since the 18th century for a court servant of black skin colour, which had by that time long been a common feature in European courts.

Swedish noble

Polish court official (1631-1685)

French military and diplomat in Swedish service during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars

Polish noblewoman